Daily Republican., 1887-07-26
a wiImipgton Girl,s Adventure.

Times give6 the particulars OF VIII
mington girls adventures / 4 that city:
"A pretty, light. t.haired girl sat in u
pitch.dark cell OF the Twenty second
district station house, up at Lehigh and
Park avenues, last night and tried to
keep cool by tanning her face with q
towel She was Is year old Lydia
Davis, a giddy girl from Wilmington.
She had run away from her home with
an Italian railroad laborer. The pair
left Wilmington on Saturday and the
elopement was cut short by the arrest
OF Lyiia. ehe was fashionably dressed
in suit Of light color and texture, aud
she has gold watch and chain and her
fingers were ornamsuted with several
rings. The Davis family live in neatly
furnished house on Third street, nesr
Walnut, In Win mington. The girls
family are well.to. do. Captain William
Lizard, o we'll known ship-owner of
Wilmington, left Roo6-sized estate to
his dSngcter; Mrs. Davis. Among the
property wss house out at BrOwntown,
a suburb of Wilmington, In which Louis
Pa'quil, handsome young Italian,
lived.
He used to come to pay the rent Of
the BrowntowE house to it's owner, Mrs
Davis, and there sew her pretty dauRh-
ter, Lydia, Love seiz "a him and 1t was
not long before the neighbors heard him
serenading lydia with an accordion.
He played, "I Await My Love-" d.
vinely, and some time later he began to
make req lar calls at the back yard of
the Davis mansion and entertain Lydia
with his accordion. She was charmed,
and played Juliet to his Romeo. Sat
urday morning Lydia told her mother
she was going TO call on q friend in
upper Wilmington. She went. Night
came, bat Lydia did rot return. The
mother thought of the Italian and the
accordion, He, too, had disappeared.
Lydia had told hsr mother q tib and
clipped. The parents sought out q
brother of Pasquil, who Ia foreman OF
the railroad gang.
He thought the pair had gone to
Philadelphia and o telegram WAS i'm
mediately sent to Chief OF Detectives
Woods, in this city. Sunday morning
Lieutenant Wolf traced the pair TO al
Italian settlement OF Clearfield and
Nineteenth streets. He found that on
Italian known as John, who used to
work in Wilmington, had induced
Lydia 20 60 with him and leave Louis
tasQuil. The tickle girl and her rev
companion had slipped away from
Pasquil and gone TO an Italian laborers'
camp on the schnylkin,. opposite the
falls bridge. There was big excitement
when Sergeant Mcclure and Officer
HorDeck appeared in the camp on Sun.
day night. The men fied and the girl
ran into cabin and tried to disguise
herself. She was caught and after
wards John was picked up. The two
reached the Twenty second district sta
ton house Just after the girls indig'
nant mother had left for Wilmington.
; The girl claimed that John WAS inno'
cent Of any offence and he was dis
charged.
yesterday morning Lydia was
brought out Of o cell and hsld by Mag
istrate Severn to await the arrival oI
. her parents. She had been waiting al
. day when Times reporter spoke to hel
, through the bars last hight. She said
\ she ran away because she WAS tired o.
Wilmington. She wanted to ses Phila
F.. ielphia and the world, and she though
&. Louis would be q good guide. Sh'
claims she los. him on Sunday morn
!. ing. Then she met John, and she say
}. she gavs him her money. She hat
Q vague misgivings as TO her coming in
!. terview with her psreats. She say
!. when she gets part of her grandfather
j. estate she will take more successful
= trip."
Q About week or ten days ago Mis-
j. DAVIS mother made ner appearance o
police station and complained that he
:. daughter had absented herself from he
J house. The matter was placed In Ser
a geant Taylor's hands, and he traced he
!. to house kept by Georgiana Truitt or
:, Tatnall street. On inquiring II she wa
! there he was told she was not, but upoi
). forcing his way into the house foun'
B. her in one of the upper rooms. Sh
D, was taken to police station, and upor
being asked why she had acted In tn
!. manner she had said that it was on ~
count of her mother scolding her oon
b tinuaily.
She was told that unless she behave
). herself better In the future she woui
O., be sent to q reformAtory school, ae
shs replied that she only wishedNha
she would be sent to such place unit
she WAS 18 years of age, when sh
es would be her own mistress.
of The officers notified her mother tha
le she was at police station, ana she wf
s. turned over To her custody. Nothln
lie further was heard Of her until last ia
V. urday, when Chief of Police Doughert
IN received o letter from Mrs Davis, sta
is ing tha, she had again ran away, an
ne th at .he nad every resson to believe 81
N Lai gone to Philadelphia.
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